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Article: A grammar of black masculinity: a body of science.(Abstract)
- Article from:
- The Journal of Men's Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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In this essay, I shall explore how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Western science has produced, through a series of authoritative discourses, what I am calling a grammar of black masculinity. For just as what has been labeled a masculinist conception of science and of scientific investigation has shaped our conception of nature, including what constitutes a "natural" body, so too, more specifically, has a white-supremacist conception of science shaped how this culture has come to think about and to theorize the nature of bodies. Therefore, after outlining briefly how a particular idea of race came about as the result of eighteenth-century and especially ...